Not seen: the 100,000 USD bill for the Apple Car
Alt text: A cartoon photo of a “Windows” car that is in need of maintenance and care, and an “Apple” car that just has an on/off switch
- Certainly_No_Brit ( @Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de ) 73•6 months ago
The difference is that you can install Linux on your Windows car and upgrade the engine if you want some more power. If a rear light bulb breaks in your Apple car, you will have to buy the new iCar 2 Pro Max™ or pay almost as much to get the bulb replaced.
- audiomodder ( @audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•6 months ago
I’ve owned Macs for years. Yes, it is the second picture, but if you take the shroud off you pretty much do whatever you want. Meaning, I’ve got a proper Unix terminal that I can use to do anything. You can tune to your heart’s content, you just don’t have to.
Compared to my Windows machine, where I just count of doing a fresh install every year or two just to keep it running.
Hey, I never said I was gonna buy an Apple Car. I know how they play their game. I’m not holding the wheel wrong.
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 49•6 months ago
Linux is like the Windows car but the guy is smiling
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 12•6 months ago
He’s like - you know what? What if I do want to change out my seats? What if I wanna, idk, have a new radio interface or whatever -
- Jo Miran ( @JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 37•6 months ago
Linux
EDIT: That’s Inspector Gadget’s “Gadget-Mobile” for those not yet middle aged.
- Spaghetti_Hitchens ( @Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ) 32•6 months ago
The charging port is underneath the car
- FakeGreekGirl ( @FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English31•6 months ago
Oh, just as much can go wrong with the Apple car. You just don’t have the tools to fix it when it does.
- Gork ( @Gork@lemm.ee ) 17•6 months ago
All of the parts will be glued together and all of the screws would be the oddly shaped, non-standard pentalobed TS1 screws.
- Superb ( @superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•6 months ago
So a heat gun and a screwdriver?
- Spaghetti_Hitchens ( @Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ) 4•6 months ago
And they will lobby to ensure only their dealerships can fix your car
- Programmer Belch ( @programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•6 months ago
The image kind of shows that statement. The car is just a
blackwhite box with a power button, no clue how it works, just that it’s working for now
- AItoothbrush ( @AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ) English20•6 months ago
Linux is a top-fuel dragster where you rebuild the engine every few races /s Fitting linux into this meme is pretty impossible considering how different distros can be. Mint is a two-seater grocery car, debian is an old volvo, gentoo is the drag racer, etc. Its like comparing a single car to a whole company.
- lazynooblet ( @lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ) English4•6 months ago
It would be a car completely flat on the ground, made up of all it’s parts neatly spread out. A geek stands in the center of it all holding an electric screwdriver in one hand and a blow torch in the other wearing a welders mask.
- Minotaur ( @Minotaur@lemm.ee ) 16•6 months ago
I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English17•6 months ago
In my uneducated opinion it’s two prongs:
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Average person doesn’t want to fix or upgrade their computer even if they had the capability to do so, so it might as well be a black box.
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Marketing. People want to feel that they own something luxurious.
It’s a wildly successful strategy.
- Minotaur ( @Minotaur@lemm.ee ) 7•6 months ago
I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.
There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.
Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@fedia.io ) 6•6 months ago
I’m an Apple user. I used to enjoy tinkering with my system (this was in the days of System 7 and ResEdit), but now I just want it to work unobtrusively. I don’t want to have to think about my OS; I want to concentrate on what I’m doing with my OS. Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.
Personally, I don’t give a shit about luxury, but then, I’ve never cared about that in any context.
- CileTheSane ( @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 5•6 months ago
Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.
That’s true if all of your devices are apple. I have Windows and an iPad, and it is unnecessarily frustrating to get the iPad to communicate with my PC. Apple keeps insisting on getting in the way.
- Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•6 months ago
I hella feel that but re: phone on my end. I have tons of Windows machines and a couple Linux boxes and I don’t want to have to muck about with my phone with custom ROMs or… anything.
I don’t want to think about my phone. I’ve got a five year old iPhone that runs like the day I got it, and I’ve got all of my texts from 10 years ago and 20k+ photos. I’ve never reformatted it.
Apple gets a lot of hate on Lemmy but damn are their phones exactly what I want.
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- swab148 ( @swab148@startrek.website ) 9•6 months ago
I’m a die-hard Linux guy, but nothing compares to Mac for music production. They’ve done something magical with the kernel that gives you almost no input latency, like I could plug my guitar straight into a MacBook and record over a backing track in real time, it’s nuts. I’ve tried the same on Linux, and there’s just nothing out there that can match it.
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 5•6 months ago
Allegedly, Pipewire is a lot better at that now, you should give it another try!
- swab148 ( @swab148@startrek.website ) 4•6 months ago
I’ll try it again when I build my new desktop this week!
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 3•6 months ago
Let me know, I’m genuinely curious!
- swab148 ( @swab148@startrek.website ) 2•6 months ago
Sure thing!
And also, charging a bougie price for it.
- Björn Tantau ( @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ) 8•6 months ago
And the gas tank is on the bottom of the Apple car.
- Aatube ( @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ) 5•6 months ago
Windows is placing touchscreens with half the functions over the physical buttons, while Apple has vibrating touchscreens that do most things, but the SuperButtons that do everything are only available for Windows.
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@fedia.io ) 2•6 months ago
I generally like Apple, but I’m SO GLAD the “Apple Car” project was cancelled.